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What is BoostFS?
Within the Data Domain community, the popularity of DD Boost is at an all-time high with an over 70% attach rate. You might wonder: With all this success why did Dell/EMC create BoostFS? The answer is simple: to make the benefits of DD Boost immediately available to hundreds applications by introducing a single feature.
Introduced in DD OS 6.0, the DD Boost File System Plug-In (BoostFS) resides on the application system, presenting a standard file system mount point to the application. With direct access to a BoostFS mount point, the application can leverage the storage and network efficiencies of the DD Boost protocol for backup and recovery. Only simple qualification is needed for the application to support BoostFS, shortening the time to market. Also, the file system interface makes BoostFS easy to deploy, allowing it to be up and running in minutes. By leveraging the DD Boost technology, BoostFS helps reduce bandwidth usage, can improve backup-times, offers load-balancing, in-flight encryption, and supports the Data Domain multi-tenancy feature set.
As a file server system implementation, the BoostFS workflow is similar to NFS but also leverages the DD Boost protocol. In addition, BoostFS improves the backup times compared to NFS and various copy-based solutions. Redirecting NFS workloads to BoostFS is easy and non-disruptive to the environment in addition to being transparent to users.
BoostFS is now available for customers with active licenses for the DD Boost Software Option or Data Domain Virtual Edition.
Are you interested? Intrigued? What do you want to know?
Stay tuned to this space for information.
Anonymous
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November 14th, 2016 03:00
On which OS could I install it ?
Philip_Fote
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November 16th, 2016 09:00
Linux O/S Support - RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu and CentOS
umichklewis
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November 18th, 2016 17:00
Any plans for BoostFS on large-endian systems like AIX, HP-UX and Solaris?
Thanks!
Philip_Fote
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November 20th, 2016 13:00
Karl,
Next year, there is plans for a windows plug-in. After that we will look at unix platforms.
Philip
dynamox
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November 21st, 2016 08:00
Philip,
where can i find admin guide/release notes for BoostFS ?
Philip_Fote
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November 28th, 2016 12:00
BoostFS content is included in the 6.0 documentation and release notes.
dynamox
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December 3rd, 2016 06:00
Philip,
I am trying to understand if i can leverage BoostFS in this scenario:
I have a RedHat 6.5 system where i am running Oracle 11g. We use DDBoost for RMAN for your typical RMAN backup but in addition to RMAN my DBAs like to perform data pump (expdp) to export database to an NFS export on Data Domain. Will BoostFS "intercept" this activity to NFS export and send new/change blocks only ?
Thank you
Anonymous
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December 5th, 2016 06:00
@Dynamox, Boostfs will dedupe data on the client and only send unique segments to DDR.
dynamox
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December 5th, 2016 07:00
Thank you Andy. How's BoostFS licensed ? If my DD is licensed for Boost, am i automatically licensed for BoostFS for unlimited number of clients ?
Anonymous
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December 5th, 2016 08:00
You are welcome. Correct, Boostfs only require a DDBoost license on DDR. License is per DDR not per client.
For your reference I have included a link to Boostfs configuration guide.
https://support.emc.com/docu78742_Data-Domain-BoostFS-1.0-Configuration-Guide.pdf?language=en_US
vinesh_pandit
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January 14th, 2018 21:00
How data expiry and deletion happens in BoostFS? Is it something similar to DDBEA? we have any expirytool?
rugby01
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January 15th, 2018 09:00
BoostFS should be treated as a NFS mount and you use the same process you would use for any file system. YOu could write a simple Linux or Powershell script to trim older files on the mount.
wkorb
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February 1st, 2018 04:00
Any update AIX/Solaris support? We very much need that in our environment.
Thanks!
rugby01
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February 2nd, 2018 07:00
Nothing released to the public about new OS support, but i know there is a beta test out there for a new OS running currently.
wkorb
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February 2nd, 2018 08:00
We'd be willing to beta test on AIX, if you need another beta tester.